Teen Rewarded With Cash, Job, And Gofundme After Turning In Wad Of $3,500 ‘Without Hesitation’

Teen Rewarded With Cash, Job, And Gofundme After Turning In Wad Of $3,500 ‘Without Hesitation’

From Australia’s Gold Coast comes the story of an honest young man who handed over $3,500 he found at a gas station and was repaid manifold.

17-year-old Josh Pache was the first to notice a wad of Australian dollars sitting on the cement outside Fox’s Pantry.

The dough had fallen out of the pocket of a local tradesman, Daniel McKellar, who runs a demolition firm. McKellar had visited the convenience store in Tugun to buy a coffee on his way home from dropping off a load of scrap metal for recycling.

McKellar didn’t notice that the money had fallen out as he climbed back into his car and drove home along with his wife. At just that time, Pache arrived on his bicycle, noticed the cash, and turned it over to the teller “without any hesitation.”

Not long after, the tradesman called the shop on a wing and a prayer asking if the money had been found and received startling news: a young man handed it in rather than taking it for himself.

But who was this underage Good Samaritan? McKellar had only the CCTV footage of Pache to go by. He took to Instagram to share his experience and ask: could anyone help him find this person?

It didn’t take long for the internet’s “magic” to work, and soon Pache’s mother saw what had happened, and reached out. McKellar wanted to offer Josh a $1,000 reward for his honesty.

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“It’s pretty rare to find the younger generation having a good moral compass and obviously knowing what to do, being the right thing to hand in the money,” Mr. McKellar told news.com.au.

Once face to face, McKellar gave Pache the $1,000 and heard that it was his goal to save up for a pickup truck. So he offered him a labor job through his contracting business, as well as launched a GoFundMe on behalf of the teen.

It’s since raised over $10,000 for the truck, just $1,100 short of its ultimate goal.

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In addition, McKellar took the other $2,500 that he had leftover, and donated it to another GoFundMe to help fund brain surgery for an advanced cancer patient, reasoning that he had already made peace with the money being lost. Recovering it was a surprise and a blessing, but one, he said, he thought was best to pay forward.

“I was never expecting the money back, I thought once I lost it … I was expecting someone to have taken it,” he explained. “I definitely had not expectation to get it back, so in my mind it was already gone.”